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Amelia Winger-Bearskin is an artist/technologist who empowers people to leverage bleeding edge technology to effect positive change in the world. She is the Director of Product at Decoded (Americas). Decoded was founded in 2011 with an ambition to teach the world to code and has reached more than 250,000 people in over 85 cities. What started with code has grown into the Decoded ecosystem – covering the key technologies that are transforming businesses today, from AI and blockchain to cybersecurity and quantum computing.

She founded IDEA New Rochelle, which promotes, develops, and maintains a vibrant Creative Technology District in the City of New Rochelle’s District (BID). IDEA partnered with the NR Mayor’s office focused on VR/AR tools to help citizens engage with their city planning projects and was awarded the 2018 Bloomberg Mayors Challenge grant to prototype their toolkit. She is a Google VR JUMP Start creator, co-directing with Wendy Red Star a 360 video story about Native American Monsters which was selected for a McArthur Grant through the Sundance Institute Native New Frontiers Story Lab 2018. She is a member of the Television Academy in the Interactive Media field (see you at the Emmys!).

Amelia was a professor of time-based media art and performance art at Vanderbilt University for five years before returning to her roots in NYC creative technology, graduating from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program in 2015. In 2016 she went on to found and direct the DBRS Innovation Labs, an applied ai research lab that specialized in developing creative uses of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. She is a board member for Exponential Creativity Ventures.